That's a classical conservative stance, really. It harkens back to the original Federalist notion of the country, and the Republican party as a whole would really prefer if absolutely no progress had been made since 1787.

The depth-capture technology has been around for a while and the motion-capture from it looks like it's feasible (considering the low quality and lag shown in the live demos), and simple vocal recognition of color names and simple phrases is certainly plausible. I seriously doubt the Molyneaux "Milo" demo as being anything but half-baked fantasy wank though (but then again that's nothing new for Molyneaux).

The Japanese version of SMB2 didn't have Birdo at all. Birdo did show up in Doki Doki Panic (the game that was released as SMB2 here), in which the character's name was Catherine. Many have taken that to mean that she wasn't a tranny originally, but according to Wikipedia she was: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Mario_series_characters#Birdo